Morgan White, Sarthak Prasad, and Quinn Connolly met with Mark Ginsberg, Paul Francsico, and Sterling Laylock to discuss HVAC projects. Below are notes from the meeting:

Techlink: Contaminant Flow Calculator and Intelligent HVAC

• Attended by - Sarthak Prasad, Morgan White, Sterling Laylock, Mark Ginsberg, Paul Francisco, and Quinn Connolly
• Introductions
  
  • Mark talked about the research
    
    • Partial differential equation
    • Solve issues using the software
• Sterling is going to facilitate the meeting
  
  • Intelligent HVAC systems patent from Mark Ginsberg
  • License the patent
  • So people can do more using that
  • Synergy with University of Illinois and RPC's ICRT
  • Campus as a Living Lab
• Morgan talked about the Safetraces project
  
  • Healthy environments for the users - during covid
  • SL connected with students
  • SL and Carl Tutt put together a funding application for SSC in collab with students
  • We don’t have a bucket of funding for these types of project
  • We would like to do another building on campus
    
    • Using the knowledge with Mark Ginsberg
  • The Building Envelope project for Transportation Building
    
    • This building is on the list of improvements
    • Blow-door tests
    • SSC project
• MW asked what kind of opportunities there might be using Mark's technology?
  
  • Asked SL to start first
    
    • There is going to be a follow up
    • SL is going to make a recommendation to the Governor's Office
    • Seems that the Governor's office don’t have all the information - so they are asking for it now
    • It will directly benefit the private companies
    • The SB253 and SB 261 - The California Environmental reporting updates starting soon
      
      • Marsh McClennan is working on this
    • London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and one more stock exchange
    • Marsh McClennan Company to make contact with us - to help with this Environment reporting
      
      • Can be a good collaboration opportunity
      • Use of the Techlink technology
    • This company's work will not only help California's State Environmental reporting, but also extend to Illinois'
  • Demonstrate the software on university buildings?
    
    • SL - There is a version
      
      • Is there an intelligent HVAC in the building
      • MG - EPA is building a simulator at some point
        
        • A building inside the building
    • MG - The patent takes several years to go through
      
      • It was awarded at the same time as Covid
      • It was filed when Anthrax issue
    • MG - Trying on campus-
      
      • The instruction is simple for students
      • One - Solution exist
        
        • Contaminated person going to hospital don’t cause superspreader event all the time…
      • Recommendations-
        
        • Replace the air filter frequently
        • Keep the fan on
      • Single family house - taking HVAC from Auto to on (fan) -
        
        • $18 per month investment
        • Researched some time ago
      • You don’t want somebody downwind of someone
      • Buildings where this technology can be easily deployed?
        
        • Transportation Building?
        • Classrooms -
    • How would someone do the assessment?
      
      • Are you getting enough air changes per hour?
      • Are you leaving the builidng's air/fan on when the building is occupied?
        
        • Turn it off after 6 pm or when everybody leaves
    • The calculation of the consequence is - Advanced UG or Early Grad student could do it
• SL - Licensing for the technology
  
  • Small business could use this technology - Phase 2?
  • Phase 1 -
    
    • Proof of business model?
• MG -
  
  • By U of I standard - everything is siting on soft money
  • Nation wide hunt for the tech transfer for his product, and perhaps monetize them
  • MG can keep SL informed but that is how he wants to go
    
    • Nation wide search himself or hire a specialist
    • Big candidate
      
      • Big HVAC companies
      • Architecture/Architecture Design companies
        
        • Benteley Software- company
  • The prospect of
    
    • What is considered a starter and non-starter
• There is not a direct benefit to MG?
  
  • We want to see if we can pay for MG
  • We don’t want to just do this for students to get some experience, we want to learn about the campus and campus buildings too…
• MG - in terms of monetizing, it is not dependent on if U of I could get some money in the door
• MW - Which type of buildings?
  
  • We have some students in Masters in Energy Planning
  • Leon Liebenberg
  • SSC funding - 1 year project
  • Energy efficiency and Air quality
  • We need to make sure that there is someone other than SP and MW advising the students
  • Campus side
    
    • Students/researchers - propose something they want to do
    • We want to know what would be helpful
• MG - He has been cooperating with some professors there
  
  • He will work with some professors who are here currently
  • Right verbiage
  • What I want vs what would fit in student's education
  • Ty Newell - Horizon House
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• PF - IHSI might be a good connection also
  
  • Toni Jacobi or Craig Bradshaw
  • Craig Bradshaw is the head of ACRC
• MW - What we are trying to offer
  
  • We can help with if we are allowed to use a building for this project
  • Introducing people in faculty and researchers
• MW - Would you like to do a demonstration project on U of I campus?
  
  • Yes
  • He will talk to a few people and he will get back to us.
• We want to start with a small building - Atmospheric Building
• MG - we can work with some office spaces
  
  • Not classroom heavy spaces
  • Preferred - Office heavy spaces - some classrooms in the same building are fine
  • Noyes Lab - complicated
  • AITS building
  • Levis Center
  • Orchard Downs
  • North of Green street
  • Transportation Building
  • TBH or Mumford Hall
  • MEL
  • Maybe one of the PRI surveys
  • Formerly SEDAC building
• Not comfortable with locations with a lot of people at the same time
• Maybe get together with MG a couple of times a year to maybe tour these places
• MG - will send a summary email as well

• Circle back every two weeks?
  
  • SP will schedule the follow up meeting -
    
    • Next virtual and then following could be site visits
  • Maybe a site visit as well

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